A Very Gare Christmas

So Christmas came and went. I didn't get any video, but I did get some pictures. I decided to have a Christmas Pajama Party Sleepover. Everyone who came seemed to enjoy themselves.

Current Life

I think it is fair to say, or admit if you will, that I am depressed. I could make a grocery list of reasons as to why I have the right to be so, but I'd rather make a list as to why I think it's only temporary, but unfortunately, maybe it isn't.
SO I've made an appointment with my doctor to see if maybe she can suggest someone to help me get on the anti-depress meds or give them to me herself. She's actually been trying to push them on me for the past three months. SO we'll find out this coming Wednesday.
What that may or may not mean for you: MORE VIDEOS. I swear to you there are at least four in my head that WILL get made (Versace Snobs; Short Story Series: Go Green; Labor Day; and Short Story Series: Roommate Hell), it's just a matter of when .
I do have a majority of the clips already filmed for the video I was making about why I don't live in CA anymore, but it just seems like I'm condemning those two boys for what they felt was right. It seems all too negative to dwell on the past, so I might just use them as fodder for other videos or perhaps you'll get to see the funnier parts of them in passing. Either way, I don't see myself making that video in the future. What's done is done.

So, in conclusion: I'm depressed; hoping to be put on the drugs; working on more videos for you (even if they only live in my head for now); and moving on from the past. That 'bout sums it up.


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Express Lane Magic

So I just wanted to share with you two of my newest favorite human interest stories that I lived through personally. Nothing big and flashy, just some people being human and allowing their humanity to shine through.

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National Cheesecake Day

So I'm 6 days late on posting this for it to be ON the actual holiday, but I was... Oh blah blah blah excuses excuses. I was lazy and forgot. I sing pretty flat in this video, so be prepared to deal with that. Other than that, enjoy and go eat some cheesecake.

Short Story Series: Bank of America 2

I know, I know. Maybe I'm too hard on the KS folk... but come on. Did she just liken me to a Seinfeld episode?

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Short Story Series: The Bank

So I had started a collection of short stories when I was with the old production company (Faggot Productions™) but they've been slightly revamped and updated for a broader crowd. This is the first in the series under the new production company (Awesome Films™). Hopefully there will be many more to come.

This story is a bit late in coming, but I've had some trouble getting in the right head space to make videos. ALSO I'd like to apologize in advance if anyone takes offense to what they might see or hear. I wasn't trying to be a prick, I was trying to share my feelings and be as open as possible. That is the point of this...

Problems

So I have had some problems getting into... oh you'll see for yourself.

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New Videos

So I've been busy trying to survive. Sorry for the absence. I promise at least one new video by week's end, if not two.
My stomach has been twisted up in knots for the past four days. I cried myself to sleep last night. It was a sobering moment. It's a little Jan. '07, July '07, Aug. '07, Nov. '07, mostly July '08, some Aug. '08, a bunch Jan. '09, and the past two months. Ha ha ha I know that's terribly cryptic. Hopefully I can get three or four videos out in the next 7 days to help explain all of that in more detail. And maybe I'll get one or two that have nothing to do with anything, just another episode of The Short Story Series.
I hope all is well in your collective worlds. Things trudge on in mine.

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Life List Item #2

In 2007 when I was told beyond a shadow of a doubt that I had cancer (which I do not) I made a short list of three items I wanted to accomplish before I died. Here, in Wichita, KS--the most unlikely of places, I accomplished item #2. You think in life that you've got it all figured out, at least have the rough draft or outline down, but then everything is shaken up and you don't know what the hell you're doing. I thought Wichita, KS was supposed to be a pitstop on my way to actually living my life. I thought it was going to be a dead zone with scratchy towels where life was going to be devoid of growth. Instead I get life list item #2 checked off the list, AND I do it on my drug free anniversary.
You think you have the rough draft or outline down. You think you have it all figured out, but life has a way of surprising you from time to time. And for that, I am not only humbled, but overjoyed.

May 6

SO I wanted to desperately reshoot this as it came out grainy and a little longer than I wanted it to, but it's a learning curve no? All in time I will get better.
This video is in place of my annual Gare Davis Drug Free 10K Fun Run. It's a little cheesey and sentimental for sentiment's sake, but deal with it.

My drug free anniversary is coming up soon. It'll be 6 years this May 6. Ha ha It's my golden anniversary. Isn't that how it works? I've sorta stopped giving so much power to numbers. They still hold significance for me in my personal life, but I need to learn to not rely on them. That is going to be hard.
I'm working on a video for my anniversary, but the one I have ready for you isn't satisfactory to me. So I have to reshoot some of the scenes.
Life continues to throw me curve balls, and while I am not knocking them out of the park, I am still making it around the bases. So I guess that is something. I have internal struggle and conflict, but then I guess I wouldn't write a blog if I didn't.

*Imaginary blog*

Dear Blog,

Today I watched the butterflies land on flowers. It was pretty. Then I went to work where I work for a man who hates his employees. I love my job (said with no bitter irony) and cannot imagine a better place to work. Then I came home to sleep in my windowless storage/bedroom. Life is picturesque and perfect. I hope tomorrow is just as exciting and full of monotony.

Yours forever til death,
Boring Clone

*End Imaginary blog*

So yeah more insight I suppose as to who I am if you choose to read between the lines. I'm not being cryptic. I'm just not ready to share the inner turmoil. Blah blah

garedavis

Introduction, as it were

SO this is the video I should have started my new blog home with. It's the introduction I made last year for the DVD's I gave out as Christmas presents. It's nothing grand, but it encompasses a better idea of who I am and some of my older videos and never before seen clips. It's only a 1:40. So it's not going to suck up your day.

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There's no place like home? Home is where the heart is? Oh Fuck!!

So here's the first video upload for the new blog home. Hopefully all goes well. I have high hopes for this site and for my new blog in general. It's a new day, a new beginning, and in the light we are all reborn. Yeah yeah barf puke.

namaste

garedavis

Am I crazy

So I keep checking my new blog site hoping for something amazing to have happened. Uh I'm sorry... Are you mentally deranged? It's my own personal website that people can visit and leave comments, but as far as anything dramatic or exciting, yeah that's all you Gare Davis. You're the one responsible for "making things happen" on this page. Sonofabitch!!

So tonight I will get the go ahead/approval to use the camcorder. So maybe sometime this weekend I'll actually get a new video up. It has been awhile since I made a video. "Norman hurry up. The loons. The loons! They're welcoming us back."
If you were me, or knew where I lived, or had an insight to the imaginary future Joe and I planned out... that would make perfect sense. But I guess you'll just have to live in the dark. I can't go explaining every little thing to you. That would just be boring and tedious.
So it's time for lunch...

garedavis

Text blogging

I tried to send this from my phone as a text. It ended up sending in three sections. I have no desire to have my random phone blogs edited by a computer. So until I am able to get the next new hotness in Smart phones (Hoping for the Samsung Memoir), I probably won't be text/blogging.

This is the text/blog as it was in its entirety:
So I'm just checking this out to see if this works. I'm like a kid at Christmas who just got his favorite toy. For me i guess that would gave been 1985 and the Imperial Walker, aka the AT-AT from the Empires Strikes Back. So often I'm out in the world and think of something I'd like to blog. Now i have the ease and comfort of just sending a text and poof voila! I love it.

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New Blog

So there isn't anything I really need to get off... well that's a bold faced lie, but for the purposes of this particular blog, there isn't anything I want or need to get off my chest. I just didn't feel like creating this new account and then leaving it completely empty. It just didn't seem right. You know how it is.

If you are new to me, my style of writing, I wish I could give you an example of who I am, but I don't think that's entirely possible. I started writing a blog on the MySpace in 2006, but when I became a Facebook fanatic, I felt like only posting on MySpace would be to deny my new Facebook friends the joy that is me. HAHAHAHA That's a joke. What I was most annoyed with was the idea that I would have to post twice.

SO here we are with the blogspot.


Mostly what I am looking forward to doing with this is posting videos. I live with someone who has access to people who compose music. I have new access to a camcorder and a whole new bevy of ideas floating around in my head. I just need to set aside some time to get started with that. I hope anyone new to me will like what I have to say.

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